Youtube goes widescreen

It has been almost 2 weeks that youtube has a wider screen. You guys must have noticed it. I'm not sure whether it is a good thing or not but I kinda like the change. Bigger screen means better viewing experience.

Here's a quote about the change from their blog:

"We're expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. This new, wider player is in a widescreen aspect ratio which we hope will provide you with a cleaner, more powerful viewing experience. And don't worry, your 4:3 aspect ratio videos will play just fine in this new player."

I guess I'm going to be more and more addicted to youtube. It has improved greatly in the past year. More and more applications are added e.g. annotations, captions, view high quality video etc. I just realised just now, there's a new application added which I think very very useful. They have added a search engine to videos embedded on other sites for example blogs. It'll list the searched video and we can view the searched video using the same screen. The search engine is a simple one but good enough for us who are lazy to go to the actual youtube site. Have a try.


By the way, this is one of my favourite songs from DBSK/TVXQ/Tohoshinki. A beautiful song and great vocal and passion from them. One of the best live performances they have ever done. It's called Love In The Ice. This is the Japanese version. They've recorded a korean version as well and is included in their latest album, Mirotic. Watch it.. hehe.. Just to promote them. They are my favourite korean group right now.